Demis Hassabis


Demis Hassabis: DeepMind | Lex Fridman Podcast #299

Jul 1, 2022

Demis Hassabis is the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind.

Outline:

0:00 - Introduction
1:01 - Turing Test
8:27 - Video games
30:02 - Simulation
32:13 - Consciousness
37:13 - AlphaFold
50:53 - Solving intelligence
1:03:12 - Open sourcing AlphaFold & MuJoCo
1:13:18 - Nuclear fusion
1:17:22 - Quantum simulation
1:20:30 - Physics
1:23:57 - Origin of life
1:28:36 - Aliens
1:36:43 - Intelligent life
1:39:52 - Conscious AI
1:53:07 - Power
1:57:37 - Advice for young people
2:05:43 - Meaning of life
 
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Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games | Lex Fridman Podcast

Jul 23, 2025

Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel Prize winner for his groundbreaking work in protein structure prediction using AI.

Outline:
0:00 - Episode highlight
1:21 - Introduction
2:06 - Learnable patterns in nature
5:48 - Computation and P vs NP
14:26 - Veo 3 and understanding reality
18:50 - Video games
30:52 - AlphaEvolve
36:53 - AI research
41:17 - Simulating a biological organism
46:00 - Origin of life
52:15 - Path to AGI
1:03:01 - Scaling laws
1:06:17 - Compute
1:09:04 - Future of energy
1:13:00 - Human nature
1:17:54 - Google and the race to AGI
1:35:53 - Competition and AI talent
1:42:27 - Future of programming
1:48:53 - John von Neumann
1:58:07 - p(doom)
2:02:50 - Humanity
2:05:56 - Consciousness and quantum computation
2:12:06 - David Foster Wallace
2:19:20 - Education and research
 

The Thinking Game | Full documentary | Tribeca Film Festival official selection

Nov 25, 2025

The inside story of the AI breakthrough that won a Nobel Prize.

The Thinking Game takes you on a journey into the heart of leading AI lab DeepMind, capturing a team striving to unravel the mysteries of intelligence and life itself.

Filmed over five years by the award winning team behind AlphaGo, the documentary examines how DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis’s extraordinary beginnings shaped his lifelong pursuit of artificial general intelligence. It chronicles the rigorous process of scientific discovery, documenting how the team moved from mastering complex strategy games to solving the 50-year-old "protein folding problem" with AlphaFold - a breakthrough that would win a Nobel Prize.

Following its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival and a successful international tour, the film is now available here to watch for free.
 
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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: AI's Next Breakthroughs, AGI Timeline, Google's AI Glasses Bet

Premiered Jan 23, 2026

Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind. Hassabis joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss where AI progress really stands, where the next breakthroughs might come from, and whether we’ve hit AGI already. Tune in for a deep discussion covering the latest in AI research, from continual learning to world models. We also dig into product, discussing Google’s big bet on AI glasses, its advertising plans, and Ai coding. We also cover what AI means for knowledge work and scientific discovery. Hit play for a wide-ranging, high-signal conversation about where AI is headed next from one of the leaders driving it forward.
 
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